West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-11-24

sition, put out the fire OF a child's disposition.
Yet we may rush to tho other extreme,
anu use toward our children too great leni-
ency' The surgeon is not unkind because,
Notwithstanding the resistance Of his patient
ne goes straight on, with firm hand and un-
taltering heart, totake or the gangrene. Nor
Is the parent less aifectionate and faithful
because, notwithstanding all violent
remonstrances on the part OF the
child, no with the irmest discipline
advances TO tho cutting off OF ita
evil inclinations The Bible says: "ChnSten
tiny son while there is hope, and let not thy
soul spare for his crying.n Childish rage
unchecked will, after awhile become burTi
zane. Childish pctulnnco will grow up into
misanthropy. Childish rebellion will develop
into tho lawlcSsncss CT riot and solution. III
you would ruin tho child dance 10 his
every caprice and stuff him with con
iectionery. Before you are aware OF il
that boy OF ten years will 20 down
the street, cigar in his mouth and ready on
any corner with his comrades TO compare
pugliistic attachments The parent who al
lows the child TO grow up without ever hay
ing learned the great duty OF obedience and
submission has prepared n cup Of burning
gan Tor his own lips and appalling desruc-
ton for his descendant Remetnber Eli AMI
MS TWO sons, Hophni AMI Phinchas
second error prevalent i'm tho training OF
children is the laying out OF theory an To-
lowing II without arranging IL 10 varieties OF
disposition In every Family you will find
child n bro timid, and that too boil: this
too mserly, and that too waSteful; this too
Inactive and that too boisterous Now, tho
farmer who should plant corn and wheat and
turnps In just the same way, then
put them through one hopper and grind them
in the same mill, would not be so much of n
fool as the parents who should attempt to
discipline and educate all their children in the
same manner. 10 needs skillful hand 10 adj
just these checks and balances The rigidity
UOXpTnmnnt which 10 10, 4, 4 -,
this impetuous nature would utterly crush
that flexible disposition, whio the gentle
reproof that would suffice for the latter would
when used on the former, be like attempting to
hold champing Bucephalus with reinS of Cos
samer. God gives us in the disposition OF each
child hint as TO how we ought TO train him
and, ms God in the mental structures of our
children indicates what mode Of training is
the bost, He indicates in their disposition
ther future occupation. Do not write down
that child as dull because it may not be as
brilliant as your other children, or as thoNo
or your neighbor Some of the mipbtiest
men and women OF the centuries had stupid
childhood. Thomas A1uinas was called at
school "the dumb OK, =" but afterward demon
strated his sanctihel genius and was called
the angel OF the schools" and "the eagle of
brttany" Kindness and patience with n
chlld VIII conquer almost anything, and they
are virtues so Chr:stianlike that they are in
spring to look at. John Wesleys kiss of a
enid on the pulpit stairs turned Matthias
Joyce from prohigato into a flaming evan
gel.
The third error prevalent in the training
OF children IS the one-s.ded development OF
either tho physical, intellectual or moral ma
ture at the expense of the others Those for
instance, greatly mistake who, while they are
faithful in the intellectual and moral culture
OF children, forget the physical The bright
eyes half quenched by night study. the
cramped chest that comes from too much
pending over school desks the weak side result
ing from sedentariness of habit, pale cheeks
and the gaunt bodies of multitudes OF chill.
dred attest that physical development does
not always go along with intellectual and
moral How do You suDDose all those treas
ures OF knowledge the child gets. will look
In shattered casketl Aud how much will Won
give Tor the wealthieSt cargo when it is nut
into leaky shipi How can that bright
sharp blade of a childs attainments he
welded without any hands! What are
brains worth without shoulders to carry
themi What is child with magnificent
mind but an exhausted bodyi Better that a
young man OF twenty-one 90 forth into the
world without knowing a from IL he have
health OF body and energy to push his way
through the world. than at twenty-one to
enter ufon active life, his head stuffed with
socrates and Herodotus. and Bacon, and La
PLACE, but no physical force to sustain him
IN the shock of earthly conflicts. From this
INFINITE blunder OF parents how many have
come out in life with a genius that could
nave piled Ossa upon Pebol and
mounted upon them 10 sale the
heavens and yet have laid down
painting with physica. exhaustion be-
fore a mole-hill. They who might have
thrilled senates and marshaled armies and
startled the world with the shock of Their.
scientific batteries, have passed their lives in
picking up. prescriptions for Indigestion
They owned all the thundeTbolts of jupiter
hut could not get out Of their rocking chair
70 use them. George Washington in early life
n oil 4 H.. 4 -
and ream Of paper he spelled rheam," but
he knew enough to spell out observation-disclosures
OF this country from foreign oppression. The
knowledge Of the schools is important but
there are other things quite rs important
Just as great Is the wrong done when the
mind is cultivated and the heart neglected
The youth OF this day are seldom denied any
scholarly attachments. Our schools and
Summaries are ever growing in efficiency
and the students are conducted through all
tho realms OF philosophy, and art, and
language, and mathematics. The most
hereditary Obtuseness gives way before
the onslaught OF adroit instructors.
but there is development OF
infinite Importance which mathematics and
the dead languages cannot affect. The more
mental power the more capacity for evil IN
less coupled with religious restraint You
discover what terrible power for evil INSANE
titled genius possesses when you see Scaliger
with his scathing denunciatiOns assaulting the
Doob men OF ms time, ana BlOunt
and Spinoza and BolingOroke lead
ing their hosts Of followers into
the allcOnuming fires OF skepticism and in
hdelity. Whether knowledge is a mighty
good or an unmtigated evil depends entirely
upon which course 10 takes The river roll
Ing on between round banks makes all the
valley laugh with golden wheat and rank
grass, and catching hold the wheel Of mill
ana factory, whirls 10 with great industries
But, breaking away from restraints
and dashing over banks I'm red wrath,
10 washes away harvests from their
moorings and makes the valleys shrek with
the catastrophe Fire in the furnace heats
the house OF drives the steamer: but uncOn-
troled, warehouses 20 down in awful crash
before Z, and in n few hours half n city viii
lie In black ruin, walls and towers and
churches and monuments You must accom-
pany the education Of the intellect with the
education Of the heart, or you are rous.ng
up within your child an energy which will be
blasting and terrific Better a wicked Ounce
than wicked philosopher
Inc fourth error often committed IN the
training Of children Is the SUPPRESSION OF child
ish spOrtfulncss. The most Triumphant death
OF any child that ] ever saw was that ~ SEQ
vile Haynes McCOllum. a few days before
that he was at my house I'm Syracuse, and he
ran like deer and his hallOO made the woods
echo. You could hear him coming a block of
sofuIl was he n rOmp and laughtorand whistle
ntput religion on your child as n straight
Jocket. Parents after having for q good
many years been iOstled about in the rough
world often lOso their vivacity and are as
tpni8ned 70 SEQ how their children can act so
tuDuEhtIe9aIy Of the earnest world about